Bullshit Alert and why... Arizona CPS: Nearly 8% of child abuse complaints not investigated (aprox 6000 in a year)

CPS: Nearly 8% of child abuse complaints not investigated

Close to one out of every 12 complaints of child abuse since January were not investigated because Child Protective Services workers simply decided, based on the information from a phone call, that they were not important enough to follow through.

Valley community reacts to news CPS ignored 6,000 child abuse cases7

Note: OMFG!!!  You stupid freekin people need to get a grip!

The news media in Arizona has obviously lost touch with the reality of the fact that just because some idiot makes a phone call doesn't mean that you automatically need to send a nasty babystealing social worker to make sure the family is safe.  And to think, the fact that they're preaching that CPS can be trusted for the job proves that they're as full of shit as a Thanksgiving turkey.

Therefore I will take this opportunity to explain that when you let the media go off on stuff like this, without adequately stating the fact that too many calls to the child abuse hotline can overwhelm an already overburdened and highly problematic failure of a system, and suddenly pushing additional demands onto that same system by stating that "Oh my God!  They're not doing enough," and demanding that they investigate every call, without asking why and automatically pumping millions more into it to fix it...

It will only make things worse.

https://www.azdes.gov/InternetFiles/Reports/pdf/semi_annual_child_welfare_report_oct_2011_mar_2012.pdf

Do you hear what I'm saying?

What they are lacking is an adequate screening process for hotline calls, in which case they would reduce the number of investigations simply because every phone call to the hotline should not automatically mean that a kid is in danger.  Some calls are made by neighbors who hate you, some are because a vindictive ex is trying to get the upper hand in a custody battle by making a false accusation.  But look at the wording they use.  "Child Protective Services workers simply decided, based on the information from a phone call, that they were not important enough to follow through."

"85% of all child abuse reports are unfounded"

NO DUMB-ASS!  Perhaps the information provided in said phone call didn't rise to the level where an investigation would be legally or ethically warranted.  In other words, that simple little scrape on the knee that Little Johnny got while running around outside last night whit his friends, and that you forced that teacher to rat the parents on via threat of jail, fines and their credentials, isn't actually worth expenditure of the limited resources, considering the fact that there had never been any prior indication of child abuse in the past, and bla bla bla... etc.

Didn't the fact that 'shit happens' ever cross your mind?  Have you ever heard of the 4th amendment of the US Constitution?  Perhaps you should look it up.  Perhaps they should at least have good reasons to fuck with people.  Is a simple phone call from one asshole to another really a good enough reason?

What is the world coming to?

BTW, for the parents in Arizona who fall victim to all of this on behalf this fanatical overreaction of a phony mountain out of a mole-hill news story, I offer the following advice.




If it goes beyond that, than I urge you to contact AFRA and learn how fight CPS the right way.